OK...I am 58 minutes away from 18 days off and a family trip from NY to Florida...time on the beach in Daytona to celebrate 11 years of marriage to an amazing woman, and taking the kids to Disney....so I am feeling generous..here are some pics of my collection.

Lucky you, have fun in Florida and congrats on 11 years :) :)

05-24-2011, 09:00 AM

hwoods

Quick Question................

Guys..... I don't mean to get this thread off track, but does anyone who has been here a bit remember where we had the Thread about our Personal Vehicles?? It had gotten up to more than a few pages, with everyone posting pics of their ride....... Including the Show Stopper, Gonzo's Mustang.....:D

Anyway, I tried the Search thing last night and didn't find it....... :confused:

05-24-2011, 01:18 PM

FireInTheShire

Quote:

Originally Posted by hwoods

Guys..... I don't mean to get this thread off track, but does anyone who has been here a bit remember where we had the Thread about our Personal Vehicles?? It had gotten up to more than a few pages, with everyone posting pics of their ride....... Including the Show Stopper, Gonzo's Mustang.....:D

Anyway, I tried the Search thing last night and didn't find it....... :confused:

I do remember that one....last time I saw it though was before I had an account.....

05-24-2011, 10:01 PM

Miller337

Quote:

Originally Posted by hwoods

Guys..... I don't mean to get this thread off track, but does anyone who has been here a bit remember where we had the Thread about our Personal Vehicles?? It had gotten up to more than a few pages, with everyone posting pics of their ride....... Including the Show Stopper, Gonzo's Mustang.....:D

Anyway, I tried the Search thing last night and didn't find it....... :confused:

This isn't good Chieftain this is the second time I've found you sitting along the road trying to remember something in the last two days.:D

05-24-2011, 10:32 PM

hwoods

Yep............

Quote:

Originally Posted by Miller337

This isn't good Chieftain this is the second time I've found you sitting along the road trying to remember something in the last two days.:D

Now that's Funny............. :D :D :p

05-25-2011, 06:17 AM

NFD-Firefighter

Quote:

Originally Posted by hwoods

Guys..... I don't mean to get this thread off track, but does anyone who has been here a bit remember where we had the Thread about our Personal Vehicles?? It had gotten up to more than a few pages, with everyone posting pics of their ride....... Including the Show Stopper, Gonzo's Mustang.....:D

Anyway, I tried the Search thing last night and didn't find it....... :confused:

start another one?

05-25-2011, 07:52 AM

hwoods

Yup............

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Originally Posted by NFD-Firefighter

start another one?

I think that's where I'm going, but it will be next week after I get back in town........ This weekend, as always, is busy in Motorsports....... see www.eastcoastpullersllc.com :D

05-25-2011, 09:12 PM

NFD-Firefighter

Quote:

Originally Posted by hwoods

I think that's where I'm going, but it will be next week after I get back in town........ This weekend, as always, is busy in Motorsports....... see www.eastcoastpullersllc.com :D

Sounds good! Have fun! How about one showing off department rigs also?

All helmets above were either fully refurbished or refinished. All except the 1987 N5A had brand new "old style" brass installed. I do not particularly care for the new style look that Cairns introduced in 1998. Any helmet that comes my way usually come out with a retro look, no matter what year of mfg.

And after. I sanded the entire thing back to leather or smooth primer. Two coats primer, a coat of flat black Krylon, a coat of brush-on flat black enamel, sanded the brush strokes, then a coat of low-gloss black engine block ceramic enamel spray.

I didn't see anything wrong with the helmet(s) before you took the job off of it and painted to look like a parade helmet.

They were never meant to look glossy.

06-21-2011, 03:36 PM

footrat

My helmet and the first New Yorker I posted both got refinished due to missing paint. Enough so that the bare leather was starting to take a beating. That's the only reason I refinish mine, is when enough paint is gone to make it worth it. When I stripped the first New Yorker, I did something new, and I followed the advice of the masses here and used Citristrip. Bad move. Not only did it not get all the finish off, it made new cracks appear and made old cracks huge. It dried out the leather BADLY. Many of the cracks needed repair anyways, so it wasn't a huge deal, but it made the refinish process that much harder. The only reason I took it to bare leather was because of the cracks, so I was planning on fixing some, but not that many. That helmet had been hit by a 3,000 lb. concrete slab falling from a second story, so it needed some TLC.

The yellow one came from another department that uses yellow helmets. We don't. When I peeled the tetrahedrons off, a couple took paint with them, and combined with the other little chips and dings, I just went ahead and sanded it to bare leather.

I like a helmet that looks like it's been used. But these things cost too much to be replacing every couple years with the amount of fire our department sees. They need to be refinished every so often simply to protect and repair the leather, not to look pretty. If I can make them look pretty for a couple shifts before they get beaten up again, I'll do it.

06-21-2011, 06:02 PM

Jonnee

I have always washed my helmet(s) off, after a job, not scrub it, but to wash it off to get the crud off. Never have I stripped and painited one.

They look pretty good.

06-22-2011, 04:10 PM

len1582

[QUOTE=footrat;1278259]

My helmet being X-rayed.

Was it sick?????????;)

06-22-2011, 04:24 PM

NFD-Firefighter

was there supposed to be a picture there?

06-24-2011, 10:43 AM

footrat

Quote:

Originally Posted by len1582

Was it sick?????????;)

It was not. We had a fire alarm at a prison. We had fun on the way back out to the engine.

Its a pos looks like someone dropped something heavy on it to destroy it.

06-24-2011, 09:08 PM

NFD-Firefighter

I know!!!! What a moron. Did you see the part where it said just cosmetic issues, but still functional as its original intended purpose? It says that before the product detail thing but right after the pricing...